Improved bolt for whiffletrees



F. B. MORSE.

Whfetree Bolt.

No. 96,255. Patented Oct. 26, 1,869.`

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F. B. MORSE, OF PLANTSVILLE, CONNECTICUT,l ASSIGNOR y TO IIIMSELF AND H. D. vSMITH & CO., OF SAME PLACE.`

Letters Patent No. 96,255, dated October 26, 1869.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the'lame.

To all whom it myconcern Beit known that I, F. B. MORSE, of Plantsville, in the county of Hartford, and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in T-'Bolt for Whiffletrees; andY I do vhereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the saine, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Fignre 1, a side view, i

Figure 2, a top view, and in y Figure 3, an under-side viewof the T.

This invention relates to Van improvement in the bolts which are employed to secure the whiletree to carriages.

Heretoforc the T of the bolt has been made pointed at both ends, and then. the end bent down, so as to turn into the Wdod, which gives to the end an unnished appearance; the. object of turning down the ends being to hold the head in its place and prevent the bolt from turning while `the nuts are being screwed on to the lower end.-

The object of my invention is to construct thehead with both ends sharp and finished, and yet. provided with means of holding the same in position better and stronger than bolts as heretofore constructed.

To enable others skilled in the' ait to make and use my invention, I will proceed tode'scribe the same, as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

A is the bolt.

B, the head, which is of oval shape, and extending from the bolt in opposite directions, so as to forin` a longitudinal plate or bar lupon the top of the whiiiietree, and when the bolt is placed through the whiietree. it will lie longitudinally thereon.

At each end of the head, and upon the underside,

I form a 1in or thin lip, a', projecting downward, as seen in figs. 1 and 3, and this Ido by forming a cor- 'responding recess in the die in which the headof the bolt is formed, so that the said ins are formed in the process'of striking up the bolt-head. 1

lliese fins are driven into the wood of the whithetree, andv while they serve to prevent the bolt from turning, they at' the same time strengthen the end of What -I claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is 1 'As an'improved article of niannfacture, the hereindescribed whifietrec-bolt, the head B having tins a formed at the end, upon the under side of the head, substantiaily as and for the purpose set forth.

F. B. MORSE.-

Witnesses:

JOHN H. SHUMWAY, A. J. TIBITs. 

